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You can map out a fight plan

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes- that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.

~ Joe Frazier

You may never know what

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Action is the foundational key to all success.

~ Pablo Picasso

Don't wait for your feelings to change before you take action. Take the action and your feelings will change.

~ Barbara Baron

Reason leads to conclusion. Emotion leads to action.

~ William Magee

Happiness is not something ready

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~ Dalai Lama

An idea not coupled with action

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

~ Arnold Glasow

Often we are caught in a mental

Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

~ Anthony Robbins

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

~ John Quincy Adams

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

~ Jacob Bronowski

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

~ Henri L. Bergson

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

~ Al Batt

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

~ Red Auerbach

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Action is the antidote to despair.

~ Joan Baez

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

~ Henri Frederic Amiel

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

~ John F Kennedy

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

~ Napolean Bonaparte